No Comment Output

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Hey all,

 

I have placed a comment in the 'comment' box on the first tab of a toolpath but it is not outputting with the code. I checked and the 'comment$' is not #'d, so I am unsure what would be hindering this.

 

Thanks!

[Colin Gilchrist]

In your control definition, NC Output page, there is a check box for "output operation comments to NC". Is it on?

[Columbo™]

Randy, Collin is right, make sure its checked. Happened to me a while back.

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Hey Guys,

 

Thanks for the reply and sadly, yes it's on Thus leaving me in the same place as I was before.... I wonder if there is a callout not being loaded or processed right in the post?

[Colin Gilchrist]

Is the "write NC operation information" checked in the Files page?

[Paul Decelles]

Check the first tab of the Machine Group Properties dialog. There will be a section that looks amazingly like the comment settings that you previously looked at in the CD (for bonus points, guess where the defaults for the Machine Group Properties dialog come from). Make sure you have the correct comment types selected.

 

The next thing to check is to make sure that the operation comment is in the .nci file. Look for the comment that you entered (it should appear just under a 1008 line).

 

If it is there and you have the correct check boxes selected in the Machine Group Properties dialog, take a look at the pcomment$ post block in your post. It should contain a call to pcomment2 and pcomment2 is the postblock that determines how the comments are formatted for output. Make sure that there are no problems in those post blocks (go ahead and post them up here using the code button if you're not sure what to look for).

 

comment$ is not an output variable. It is a command that tells MP to dump the comments (all of the comments) currently held in scomm$.

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

I checked in the machine group properties and the operation comments are selected there, as well as in the CD. With the NCI, I am not getting an NCI created when I post. It posts some NCI's out but not all of them. I don't know what's going on there.

 

And here is my pcomment sections;

 

code:

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pcomment$       #Comment from manual entry (must call pcomment2)

pcomment2 #Required if doing boolean 'if' logic testing!

 

pcomment2 #Comment from manual entry

#1005 - As Comment

#1006 - As Code

#1007 - As Comment with output line, change at point

#1026 - As Code with output line, change at point

#1008 - Operation comment

#1051 - Machine Name

#1052 - Group Comment

#1053 - Group Name

#1054 - File Descriptor

spaces$ = 0

scomm$ = ucase (scomm$)

#if sof & gcode$ >= 1051, pbld, "(", scomm$, ")", e$

if gcode$ = 1005, pbld, "(", scomm$, ")", e$

if gcode$ = 1006, pbld, scomm$, e$

if gcode$ = 1007, "(", scomm$, ")"

if gcode$ = 1026, scomm$

if gcode$ = 1008 & header = zero, pbld, "(", scomm$, ")", e$

if gcode$ = 1008, scomm_sav = ucase(scomm$)

spaces$ = sav_spc

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[Tim Johnson]

Remove the "& header = zero" and it should work.

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

You got'er spot on Tim!

 

Thanks for all the feedback!

[Tim Johnson]

What does "header" do in your post?